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CFU's first tri-lingual paper with English front side (5-pages) and one French page and Punjabi front side (6-pages); Headlines: CFU on the move - 2 certifications won; Chavez attends Vancouver Rally; Jury raps living conditions; 250 attend meeting on health and safety; CUPE contributes $10,000 to CFU Delegates at NDP convention support farmworkers; Phoney union trying to sabotage CFU organizing; Racist attack on union organizer; Government responsible for deaths of four children in Fraser…

A tri-lingual newspaper with English front side (5-pages), two-page centerfold in French, and Punjabi front side (5-pages). CFU's new logo is presented on the front page. Headlines: CFU National Convention A Success; CFU Signs First Agreement; Ontario's Farmworkers Now Have A Union; Use And Misuse of Pesticides; Immigrant Women Exploited; The Attack at Osoyoos; Okanagan Farmworkers Attend CFU Public Meeting.

A tri-lingual paper with English front side (4-pages), and only the CFU 'President Message' in French, and Punjabi front side (3-pages). Headlines: Farmworker Dies Of Pesticide Poisoning; Agreement Signed At Jensen Mushroom Farm; UIC Discrimination Against Farmworkers Ends; Ontario Summer Legal Clinics; A Time To Learn; Film 'A Time To Rise' Banned in India;

The CFU hosted UFW President Cesar Chavez promoting the UFW's second major table grape boycott. CFU held a press conference to announce the start of the Canadian grape boycott at the CFU Burnaby office. This photo is a private house meeting with CFU staff and supporters. (Left to right) Arturo Rodriguiez (current 2011 UFW President), Calvin Sandborn (4th), Tom Sandborn (5th), Sarwan Boal, (6th center), Cesar Chavez (7th center top), Anju Hundal (7th center bottom), Sukhwant Hundal (8th top…

First proposal and budget to OFL to fund CFU organizers. Background to CFU organizing campaign in Ontario with a review of Ontario provincial labour laws that exclude famworkers. Appendix includes: OFL 1974 Statement on Farm Labour; excerpts from Ontario Labour Relations Act; Ontario Health and Safety Act 1978; Letter to Ontario MPP Robert MacKenzie about farmworkers exclusion from Labour Relations Act; OFL union resolutions; 1980 Media Release for first collective agreement between CFU and…

CFU Local No. 1 and Jensen Mushroom Farm Ltd sign first collective agreement. The farm re-opens in September, 1982 with 70 workers after a 15 month bitter violent strike that started April 14, 1981.

A press release for the National Film Board film A 'Time to Rise' screening in Toronto.

Produced and directed by Anand Patwardhan and Jim Munro, with assistance from the National Film Board, this documentary tells the story of the birth of the CFU.

Cultural evening with speaker, Jean Claude Parrot, president Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). Silkscreen poster two diferent colour versions produced (orange or blue).

Cultural evening with speaker, Jean Claude Parrot, president Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). Silkscreen poster two diferent colour versions produced (orange or blue).

Cultural evening with a speech 'Racism at Work' by CFU executive member Sarwan Boal and screening of the film A Time to Rise and Reggae music performances.

This proposal was developed to raise funds amongst the non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Attached one-sheet for the film 'A Time to Rise'. Also, see second report dated March 30, 1982. This ma

This second annual proposal was developed to raise funds amongst the non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Also, first phase assesment with details of CFU cultural and educational material produced. Attached: a double-sided one sheet for the film 'A Time to Rise' in french and English a brochure 'An Appeal to the BC Legislature'; a letter from Raj Chouhan with a summary of BC provincial labour laws that exclude farmworkers; the first proposal of the Farmworkers ESL Crusade. Also, see first…

At the March 27, 1981 First National CFU Convention, the resolution for CFU to affiliate to the Canadian Labour Congress was tabled after the Okanagan CFU farm worker reps opposed. Three months later, this special convention was called just to adopt the resolution that the CFU join CLC. The convention documents include: an important Position Paper on the Question of Affiliation; a letter in-support from CFU-Ontario; Ontario Federation of Labour letter of support; an annual budget; an…

Handwritten minutes of an important internal union meeting of staff and key supporters to discuss the strategy and tactics of a future Mushroom Boycott that did not happen.